1419 was the sole representative of her class allocated to a Cornish Motive Power Depot in the mid. fifties , being stationed at 83E , which was St .Blazey , from where she worked the Fowey branch as shown here.
This view shows clearly the Auto Train " Push and Pull " apparatus on the front buffer beam with which the initial batch of seventy five of the class were fitted from new by Swindon Works , enabling them to fulfil their primary and intended function of running both at the head of , and from the rearmost coach , on branch line passenger duties.
Originally numbered 4800 to 4874 inclusive when built by Swindon in 1932 this initial batch were renumbered as 1400 to 1474 inclusive in 1946 when their original " 4800 " series of numbers were transferred to those members of the " 2800 " class which were converted to oil burning following the end of the war years.